Godly Republicanism : Puritans, Pilgrims, and a City on a Hill /
Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the new world-they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking ye...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2012]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: An Old Man's Tears for Godly Republicanism
- 1. The Rise and Bleeding Fall of Elizabethan Godly Republicanism
- 2. The Separatist Beginnings of Elizabethan Congregationalism and Presbyterianism
- 3. James I and a New Crisis of Antichristian Power
- 4. The Triumphs and Trials of the Lord's Free People
- 5. Christian Liberty at Plymouth Plantation
- 6. Separatism at Salem?
- 7. The Appeal of Massachusetts Congregationalism
- 8. Designing a Godly Republic
- 9. A City on a Hill
- 10. Godly Republicanism's Apocalypse
- Note on Usage
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index